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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 163f060 | That summer Nal was fourteen and looking for excuses to have extreme feelings about himself. | Karen Russell | ||
| 8697d22 | A dog's love is forever. We expect infidelity from one another; we marvel at this one's ability to hold that one's interest for fifty, sixty years; perhaps some of us feel a secret contempt for monogamy even as we extol it, wishing parole for its weary participants. But dogs do not receive our sympathy or our suspicion -- from dogs we presume an eternal adoration. | Karen Russell | ||
| e92aa23 | Secret deals get brokered behind the Barn, just north of the red sloop of the bunny hutch. A number of the presidents are planning their escape for a day they are calling the Fourth of July. | Karen Russell | ||
| d2ea41d | When the door came loose, colors flooded over us. I screamed, too, and covered my face with my arms, and if Ossie hadn't caught me I might have fallen into the wedge of canal between the shoreline and the boat. In that second I knew that I'd been wrong this whole time: that my sister was psychic, that the whole world was haunted, and now a ghost was tuning itself like a luminous string above me. Then the ghost broke into particulates of win.. | Karen Russell | ||
| b8da305 | their eyes flicking all over each other. | Karen Russell | ||
| 1ab1e4f | The heron is painted a somber Madonna blue, my only criticism of it. Turquoise would have been my choice, I tell him. "Turquoise is what that blue would look like if she divorced the night and went on a fabulous vacation." -- | Karen Russell | ||
| f609503 | They greyhound whine with her, distressed by her distress. Sometimes, in a traitorous fugue, the dog forgot to be unhappy and ran off to chase purple butterflies or murder shrew-mice, or to piss a joyful stream onto the topiaries. But generally, if her mistress was crying, so was the puppy. | Karen Russell | ||
| 85a8f1f | This strain of virulent misery, this falling out of love, caused different symptoms, unique disruptions, in dogs and humans. | Karen Russell | ||
| d5dea16 | Just about everybody I've ever wanted to impress, I've now outlived. | Karen Russell | ||
| 3588d7d | Weather damage is the inverse of a victimless crime - people get robbed of everything, and there is no evildoer to lock in a cage. | Karen Russell | ||
| 2d93a88 | My oldest daughter was four pounds at birth, and her appearance flooded the earth with an infinite number of horrors and perils, a demonic surge of catastrophic possibilities out of all proportion to the tiny mass in my arms. Love unlids Pandora's box. | Karen Russell | ||
| 961f29b | Live long enough, and your life becomes your own to gamble with again | Karen Russell | ||
| a4132b8 | An unembarrassed silence seemed to be on loan to us from the distant future, where we were already friends. | Karen Russell | ||
| b2dc21a | With her mauve lipstick in place and her glossy hair smoothed, she was shooting colors all around the room. Could you scare a dead boy with the vibrancy of your life? | Karen Russell | ||
| 344d5b7 | Who can say what the dead do or do not know? Perhaps the knowledge of one's death, ceaselessly swallowed, is the very food you need to become a ghost. | Karen Russell | ||
| 29ed2c0 | The boy could scarcely believe the size of the boulders, clustered under the enormous sun like dead red rockets awaiting repair, or the span of the sky, a cheerfully vacant blue dome, the desert's hallucinatory choreography achieved through stillness, brightness, darkness, distance -- and all of this before noon. | Karen Russell | ||
| 394748c | Kids were for later, maybe. They could still see the children they had been. | Karen Russell | ||
| 458ddd0 | But the desert offers something that no forest, brook or valley ever can: distance. A cloudless rooming house for couples. Skies that will host any visitors' dreams with the bald hospitality of pure space. | Karen Russell | ||
| df82b31 | Now her body was the only place where the memories were preserved. | Karen Russell | ||
| 95d4658 | You could not survive your death, could you? It survived with you. | Karen Russell | ||
| e7ee239 | Heartbreak is the university diagnosis for the pain that accompanies the end of love. But this was an unusual breakup, in that Cillian's mind shattered first. | Karen Russell | ||
| 71e83a7 | You had to really cultivate an ending. To get it to last, you had to kneel and tend to the burial ground, continuously firming your resolution. | Karen Russell | ||
| 10f3441 | For the duration of our friendship, we'd trade off roles like this: anchor and boat, beholder and beheld. | Karen Russell | ||
| 3a95902 | Microprocessing reduces the size that groups must stain in order to be effective in the use and control of violence. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| c9d43ce | Warm winds and cold winds charged into the system--the collision of temperatures that keeps a baby spinning, breathing. The goal is to get that rotation to be self-sustaining. It's an art, no doubt, to calibrate your inputs so that you fight off homeostasis, keeping a young storm in that growth state. A tornado farmer is always in pursuit of a paradox: consistent instability. As Estelle and our girls would tell you, if I have one talent, it.. | Karen Russell | ||
| 29072c8 | How true can this sensation of unity really be if you need to leave everyone you care about to get it. | Karen Russell | ||
| 071eee5 | The past, with its monstrous depth and span, reached toward him, demanding an understanding that he simply could not give it. | Karen Russell | ||
| 13b55fc | When the payoff for organizing violence at a large scale tumbles, the payoff from violence at a smaller scale is likely to jump. Violence will become more random and localized. Organized crime will grow in scope. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| df36b48 | Topographic conditions were the foundation of Greek democracy, just as those of a different kind gave rise to the Oriental despotisms of Egypt and elsewhere. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| c616436 | The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg | Timothy Ferriss | ||
| 12f31a4 | Because of the colder weather, prosperity began to wind down into a long global depression that began around 1620. It proved drastically destabilizing. The economic crisis of the seventeenth century led to the world being overwhelmed by rebellions, many clustering in 1648, exactly two hundred years before another and more famous cycle of rebellions. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| 4ea8c80 | The growing importance of technology and manufactured output reduced the impact of the weather on economic cycles. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| ef52482 | Before the discovery of quinine in the mid-nineteenth century, white armies could not survive in malarial regions, however superior their weapons might have been. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| 83408d9 | This tended to increase the size of societies because contests of violence more often than not were won by the larger group. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| 78a9a82 | With the advent of farming, human horizons expanded. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| 79ce7b9 | A great part of the cultural energy of poor farming societies has always been devoted to suppressing experimentation. If they had insurance, or sufficient savings to self-insure their experiments, such strong social taboos would not be needed to help ensure survival. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| f633920 | The control of violence is the most important dilemma every society faces. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| d973a8e | Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will end and what rules may prevail in the new system that takes its place. | James Dale Davidson | ||
| ce44cb0 | The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. | Abraham Lincoln | ||
| 5f9e580 | are | Patricia Hickman | ||
| 5705683 | The hardest part about changing the new year is changing ourselves. We have to write each day differently than last year's days. If we do, we increase the chances we won't meet with last year's disappointments. Patricia Hickman | new-years-day | Patricia Hickman | |
| bf6d2e1 | nightlife. She was more of a dancing shoes kind of girl than a hiking boots kind of girl. There was a pained sweetness about her | Tony Parsons | ||
| abd5001 | telling me how much he loves me and the next | Tony Parsons | ||
| d641e72 | the global bonfire of fossil fuels will heighten the likelihood of pandemics on its own, in a way that is likely to be even more consequential than all of its contributing factors put together. | Sonia Shah |